Adaptive diving

People with disabilities can enjoy diving through accessible adaptive programs

Whether a visual or hearing disability, a limb difference, a mobility impairment, or other disability, people who have disabilities can be divers too. Adaptive diving is accessible to people with a range of conditions and abilities.

Here are experiences from our experience as a family, and from Jodie, an above-knee amputee.

Watch this amputee’s experience going through PADI adaptive dive training

Diving with a disability: training, finding dives, and more

Learn more and start diving

PADI Adaptive Diving Week

PADI: Find an Adaptive Service Facility

PADI Adaptive Support Diver Course & Training